The marvelous, indomitable Frank Auerbach is still alive and working. His recent show at Luhring Augustine showed that this member of the School of London/London Calling exhibition who was born in Berlin in 1931 has extraordinary staying power.

He was sent to England as part of the Kindertransport at age 7 and never saw his parents who were killed in the camps again.

This image of his friend and colleague Leon Kossoff from 1951 shows how thick as thieves the two were. They met at Borough Polytechnic and became each other's family.

Like Bacon, Freud and Andrews, he found favor with critics John Berger and David Sylvester (father of Cecily Brown).

Later he would come to a brighter palette as in Portrait of JYM from 1961. But in the portrait of Kossoff, the line from a painter like Walter Sickert is clearer. It's haunting.